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Creditors are not the government's biggest problem with GM, although they would like the public to think debt is the headache everyone should focus on. A bankruptcy judge could force a large cut in health and retirement benefits for UAW members. That would be on top of what is likely to be another round of lay-offs. With the national unemployment rate moving up as fast as it is and large numbers of pensions facing funding problems, the federal government may not want to be forced to support current and retired GM workers. Someone will have...
...possessions in the final minute, sophomore Dean Gibbons turned the ball over, and the Tigers cleared it as time expired to secure the narrow victory. Gibbons had the hot hand on the afternoon, posting a hat trick that included two fourth-quarter goals. But the Crimson faced a familiar problem in the waning seconds—being forced to take low percentage shots. “I think that’s what hurt us,” Crimson coach John Tillman said. “We may have had more shots, but we didn’t shoot...
...outs - Junior Dan Zailskas pops out to short right field. "Dennhardt's gonna be a problem," laments a Crimson reporter...
...report was damning. Baghdad, it concluded, "offers no protection services to victims of trafficking, reported no efforts to prevent trafficking in persons and does not acknowledge trafficking to be a problem in the country." As a TIME.com story detailed, trafficking in Iraq is a shadowy underworld where nefarious female pimps hold sway and impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters on the sex market. (See pictures of a women's prison in Baghdad...
...rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, the American sailor held hostage by Somali pirates, came to a dramatic and happy conclusion on Sunday night off the coast of Africa. However, the problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden remains - and may only be getting worse...